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050	0	4	_aBX1795 _b.W465 2005
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100	1		_aWilliams, Thomas D., _cLC. _e1
245	1	0	_aWho is my neighbor? _bpersonalism and the foundations of human rights / _cThomas D. Williams.
260			_aWashington, D.C. : _bCatholic University of America Press, _c(c)2005.
300			_a1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aPart one: Rights in the crosshairs -- _tDefining human rights -- _tSome needed nuances -- _tThe church and human rights -- _tPart two: The case against rights -- _tThe accusation of nonexistence -- _tThe accusation of inseparability -- _tThe accusation of innovation -- _tPart three: A new solution to an old problem : thomistic personalism -- _tA personalism primer -- _tThe person according to personalism -- _tDignity and its due -- _tThe two loves -- _tFrom love to human rights -- _tChrist and human dignity -- _tPart four: Human rights and classical ethics -- _tNatural law -- _tNatural justice -- _tNatural rights in classical theory -- _tPart five: Towards an ethics of solidarity -- _tWho is my neighbor?
520	0		_aOver the past half century the language of human rights has gained such dominance in moral, civic, and ecclesiastical discourse that ethical and social questions are increasingly framed in terms of rights. Yet the vast literature dealing with human and civil rights focuses almost exclusively on the juridical and practical ramifications of rights, rather than the philosophical, moral, and foundational aspects. As a result, the proliferation of rights claims and catalogs has not been accompanied by a reasoned case for the existence of human rights or rational criteria for distinguishing true moral entitlement from spurious claims. Who Is My Neighbor? makes a case for human rights as moral entitlements grounded in the dignity of the human person. Drawing upon insights of Thomistic Personalism, Thomas D. Williams sets forth the anthropological, philosophical, and theological bases for asserting that the human person must always be loved as an end and never used as a mere means. Williams grants ample space to critics of rights theory and systematically answers their arguments by showing how, rightly understood, human rights dovetail with classical ethical theory and traditional formulations of justice and natural law. Williams suggests that rights language not only does no violence to classical ethics but serves to highlight certain fundamental truths about the human person essential to right human relations.
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650		0	_aHuman rights _xReligious aspects _xCatholic Church.
610	2	0	_aNatural law _xReligious aspects _xCatholic Church.
650		0	_aNeo-Scholasticism.
650		0	_aPersonalism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=500928&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell